Development Effects of Electrification: Evidence from the Topographic Placement of Hydropower Plants in Brazil

Lipscomb, Molly; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Barham, Tania

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“…Studies have found effects of access to electrification on a wealth of socioeconomic variables like employment (Dinkelman, 2011), indoor air quality (Barron and Torero, 2015a), energy use, time allocation, and income (Barron and Torero, 2015b;Bensch, Kluve, and Peters, 2010;Khandker, Barnes, andSamad, 2012, 2013;Chakravorty, Pelli, and Marchand, 2013), housing value and human development (Lipscomb, Mobarak, and Barham, 2013). However, there is still scarce evidence on the role that access to electricity plays on firm performance and industry development, two key elements of economic growth.…”

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Exploring Firm-Level Innovation and Productivity in Developing Countries: The Perspective of Caribbean Small States

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Maffioli³

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Section: Manuel Barronmentioning

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Exploring Firm-Level Innovation and Productivity in Developing Countries: The Perspective of Caribbean Small States

Crespi¹,

Dohnert²,

Maffioli³

et al. 2017

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“…It has been estimated that around a quarter of the world's population lack access to electricity. Lipscomb et al (2013) study the long-run effects of electrification in Brazil: using spatial variation in the scope for hydropower plants, they can isolate exogenous variation in the extension of the network. Their results suggest that electrification brings significant gains in educational attainment, employment rates and income per capita.…”

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Regional Growth and Regional Decline

Breinlich

Ottaviano

Temple

2014

Handbook of Economic Growth

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Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods and data. We survey a range of modelling traditions, and some formal approaches to the 'hard problem' of regional economics, namely the joint consideration of agglomeration and growth. We also review empirical methods and findings based on natural experiments, spatial discontinuity designs, and structural models. Throughout, we give considerable attention to regional growth in developing countries. Finally, we highlight the potential importance of processes that are specific to regional decline, and which deserve greater research attention.

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“…Another study by Lipscomb et al (2011) studies development effects of electrification between 1960 and 2000 using geological placement of hydropower plants in Brazil. Elec-trification is most probably correlated with unobservable effects like political decisions and other demand side concerns.…”

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Local natural resource curse?

Borge

Parmer

Torvik

2015

Journal of Public Economics

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The large variation in revenues among Norwegian local governments can partly be explained by revenues collected from hydropower production. This revenue variation, combined with good data availability, can be used to extend the literature on the resource curse in two directions. First, to ensure that there is no problem of endogeneity in the analysis we obtain a purely exogenous measure of local revenue by instrumenting the variation in hydropower revenue, and thus total revenue, by topology, average precipitation and meters of river in steep terrain. Second, using data for revenue derived from hydropower production in Norwegian local governments we test the 'Rentier State' hypothesis; that revenue derived from natural resources should harm efficiency more than revenue derived from other sources such as taxation. Although we do find that higher local government revenue reduces the efficiency in production of public goods, we do not find that this effect is stronger for natural resource revenue than for other revenue.

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Development Effects of Electrification: Evidence from the Topographic Placement of Hydropower Plants in Brazil

Cited by 256 publications

References 14 publications

Exploring Firm-Level Innovation and Productivity in Developing Countries: The Perspective of Caribbean Small States

Exploring Firm-Level Innovation and Productivity in Developing Countries: The Perspective of Caribbean Small States

Regional Growth and Regional Decline

Local natural resource curse?

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